Improvement in razor-strops



J. H. DAVIS. Razor-S trops.

No. 216,157. Paterited June 3,1879.

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v N. PETERS,PHOTOLITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOEL H. DAVIS, OF TEMPLETON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAZOR-STROPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,] 57, dated June 3, 1879; application filed September 21, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oEL HAPGOOD DAVIS, of Templeton, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Razor-Strops;

. and I do hereby declare that the following is a tion ofa perspective view of my razor-strop.

My invention relates to a strop for sharpening razors; and the novelty consists in the construction, will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

It is desirable in this class of goods to have the sharpening-surface provided with a firm spring, and to this end many devices have been employed, among which the tacking of leather at each end of a piece of wood with a hollow or dishing surface beneath but inall such cases the difference of material, unequal contraction and expansion, or other disturb in g elements have rendered the devices of little moment or worth.

My invention consists in forming both the body and the spring surface of the same material; and to this end I take a piece of any suitable wood and core it at a sufiicient distance from one or both edges to leave a thin strip of the native 1naterial,'which strip serves as the sharpening side.

Referring to the drawing, A represents the body; B, the space left after the coring has been accomplished, and G the face or spring strip.

A double strap may be formed by coring out opposite sides, and leaving the spring-stri p on each side.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The razorstrop described, composed of one piece of wood, cored out at B, so as to leave the spring-strip G and body A of the same material, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOEL HAPGOOD DAVIS.

Witnesses:

JAMES STIMPsON, GEO. E. BRYANT. 

